Read by Deepti Gupta

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide. When the local villagers also discover the tiger, Isha finds herself embroiled in a life-or-death cultural controversy. Isha's crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India. Her encounters with tribal people, elephants, and her search for the wild jungle are the source of her revelations about the human relationship to the natural world in a gripping story of determination, discovery, and coming of age. Prologue1. The Cobra2. The Tiger3. Window4. Tiger, Tiger5. Crucifixion6. Wild Eyes7. The Elephant Boy8. Exodus9. Legends of Trunk and Trust10. The Crossing11. The Second Coming12. The Goat Thief13. Sanctuary14. The Hunter15. Fellowship of the Tiger16. The Climb17. The Jungle18. The Tribe19. There's No Going Home20. Parting21. The Stand22. Night of Stripes and Fire23. The Deer and the Tiger24. A Light in the Forest25. Chinnappa26. Last Days27. Ramachandran28. No Help is Coming29. Night30. The EndEpilogue "Only someone with an enormous love for nature and the talent to be able to see in details can produce a work of such merit." "A beautiful and tragic journey through India's threatened jungles."

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